is not good.)
I think their are more important factors like,
Time till ROI?
Profit during that time, and anticipated profit per year after that
time (ROI).
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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Never. The model doesn't work at their pricing model. They will never be
profitable.
The $279 acquisition costs don't include hardware, advertising, referral
fees, coop fees to retail partners.
Their churn is double digits.
They don't indicate how many purchase hardware and never activate.
Actually, according to the Census data, Walla Walla has 2,252 businesses.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5375775.html
Even 5% of that would be a great business.
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Why have one big wireless ISP when you can have hundreds of small ones?
That's the question NuTel Broadband Corporation
http://nutelbroadband.com/ of Cranbury, New Jersey seems to be
answering. The company wants to create partnerships with existing ISPs —
or just entrepreneurial
Because number of subs is the measuring stick.
Revenue is more important; but profit is the most important.
Not many can speak to profit, so they measure in subs.
- Peter
Matt Liotta wrote:
Not sure why the number of customers is even important when the
quality of customers can vary so
Frank,
In the same day as your post on WISPA, you are asking if anyone is
filing comments to the BST-ATT merger on other lists. Surely, your
supporters will at least take 5 minutes to write a comment. No? Why not?
Because it is easier to say I support something verbally than to
actually do
You better start collecting big $$ and handing checks to Senators or you
will never get it off the ground.
Don't you remember Penn. PSC over the VZ LD?
One week they decide to break it up.
ATT says it will cost $250M; VZ says $1B
PSC Commissioners afraid that their car would explode.
6 weeks
Dreaming... hope you have a Plan B, Ethan Hunt.
Frank Muto wrote:
I do get it, but at a different view point. I'll agree that the USF
should
still be available, but let's widen the tax base and lower the
percentage.
This also is a good time to look again at structural separation of the
You can only collect 3 years worth according to law.
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After all this time, you still don't get it
USF, taxes, and national interest are built into the PSTN.
The FCC E-911 ruling was just one hurdle to prevent VoIP from
deflowering the PSTN.
As it is, at every turn, the BOCs are losing lines.
Cable has taken almost 10M VoIP lines already.
I think if you haven't already contacted your Congress critter about
this, you should do it first thing in the morning.
Jeff Broadwick wrote:
Sorry for the cross post...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/05/25/the.web.toll/index.html
Coming soon: The Web toll
New laws may transform
A high-powered group of local tech execs and former government officials
has started a company to build a $400 million national wireless
broadband network.
The company, M2Z Networks, plans to sell high-speed bandwidth to
Internet service providers while making slower access available to the
Teletruth
News Alert: May 11, 2006
Contact: Bruce Kushnick, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To read the full complaint:
http://www.teletruth.org/docs/wirelesscomplaintfin.pdf
Wireless
Spectrum Fraud by ATT, Cingular (SBC BellSouth), Verizon,
T-Mobile and Sprint? Are these "Very Small Businesses"?
JohnnyO wrote:
A $120,000,000/yr company here just moved to a CRM packaged called
SalesLogix ? They have been very happy with it. It's price point is
very attractive and the flexibility seems to be there.
JohnnyO
SalesLogix and SalesForce.com spend big advertising dollars.
SugarCRM is the
You run your business as a sole proprietor?
That means you have no asset protection - and you can only take
advantage of about 25% of the tax code.
S Corp or LLC allows you both asset protection and tax breaks.
Marlon, spend the $1000 to have a corporate attorney get you
incorporated and get
Sue Crawford explains USF:
http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/2/1928428.html
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To fill in on rural gaps, ATT is selling Wildblue satellite internet
service under its own brand.
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060508/ap_on_hi_te/at_t_satellite_broadband_1]
The company already has been trying fixed wireless broadband in Alaska,
Georgia and New Jersey. One of the
Charles,
Many do indeed :)
- Peter
Charles Wu wrote:
But that's just the last mile local loop -- what about the ATM DS-3 circuit
coming back (and so forth)
Then there's servicing costs / etc
Keep in mind -- Bell copper has been amortized for quite a long time now --
and has been installed
What tariff rate? DSL is unregulated and de-tariffed.
It is also subsidized by voice services, since it uses the same copper
pair.
Billing is miniscule (less than $1) because you already get a bill.
Their IP and ATM combined cost is less than $2 per subscriber.
The real overhead is tech support
According to Eric Lee, most of the 500+ members of Congress don't
understand any of this stuff, but have to write a bill that does. Hence,
do you really think that Congress or the FCC takes in to account the
difference between fiber and wireless? How about the cable system and
the PSTN? How
Tom,
Random mixed thoughts:
When I buy a car or a sweater, I understand the tangible asset I have
paid for.
When I pay a toll on a highway, I understand that it is a tax for the
thru-way upkeep.
When I buy an internet pipe, I assume when they say 1.5M, I get 1.5M.
Anything else better be
David S. Isenberg is a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/
He worked for ATT Labs until he wrote /The Rise of the Stupid Network
/in May 1997.
Network Neutrality Reality
A podcast of my Berkman Lunch Talk yesterday, Network Neutrality
Tough to herd those cats, but you may want to really move on this.
Get all the AOL® you want using your existing connection with 10 hours of
dial-up, just in case. *$14.95* per month.
With a BB connection, as low as $25.95 for Unlimited access to AOL.
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Free Municipal Wi-Fi Service Boosts Economic Development in the City of
St. Cloud, FL
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Bob Moldashel wrote:
3500 registered users using a network that costs $400K per year to
maintain!!! That's $114 per subscriber! Why not just pay to give
them DSL! LOL
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Marlon K. wrote:
It's funny. I thought that getting the local businesses on broadband
would help me sell more of it. People would use it at work and want
it at home too right? Wrong. They just do all of their stuff at work
and sometimes cancel even the dialup!
This is because people
That's wishful thinking, The harsh reality of DC and politics is
something else altogether.
When has any act of Congress or the FCC been a consumer benefit in the
last 3 years???
And considering many of the WISPs don't want to particpate in federal
filings, why would the feds want to let them
http://www.rad-info.net/fcc/
Survey to take:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=675152044966
Statement of Principles:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/=principles
The SavetheInternet.com Blog:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/
Tell Congress to Save Net Neutrality Now:
Can any provide wireless here?
Street: 6911 N. Trenholm Road
Building / Floor / Room: Suite #2
City, State, ZIp: Columbia, SC 29206
Phone: 803-782-5445
Seems to be no cable or DSL.
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These are just my thoughts, but they come from having taken a serious
beating in DC over the last 18 months.
Lesson One: FCC will protect the PSTN and the associated ILECs at all costs.
Lesson Two: Tax monies are THE issue.
Lesson Three: No Free Lunch. None. Period.
Lesson Four: Politicians
Matt,
Dave's topic isn't really Net Neutrality. That is an ISP filtering its
own email accounts. You can change ISPs.
Net Neutrality deals with the last mile providers - MSO and ILEC -
prioritizing their traffic or partner traffic while squeezing out
traffic from all other sources.
Net
Sorry about that! This was supposed to be off-list.
Peter R. wrote:
Rick,
This can be a good thing. Referral programs can be great.
I set up compensation plans and referral programs for ISPs.
I also am a sales agent for 20+ companies (so I have an idea what the
industry averages
Rick,
This can be a good thing. Referral programs can be great.
I set up compensation plans and referral programs for ISPs.
I also am a sales agent for 20+ companies (so I have an idea what the
industry averages are).
Regards,
Peter
RAD-INFO, Inc. - NSP Strategist
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At its monthly open meeting earlier today, the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) approved plans to reallocate spectrum below 3 GHz now
earmarked for new Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) and to set into
motion a June 29 auction of the AWS radio frequencies for which the FCC
expects to
Tom,
The key to growth in business is hiring the right people.
You can successfully run more than one business at the same time with
capable employees - as well as processes, procedures and controls in
place. (This is the key to franchising and the E-Myth, btw).
Three problems:
1) Finding
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/73487
*Avoiding MIMO*
/Professor warns: stick with 802.11g/
Posted 2006-04-10 13:22:06
Incorrectly advising users that new 802.11n gear won't work with old
hotspots, an article in the Boston Globe
Anthony Will wrote:
Im I wrong here because I believe a T1 line utilizes TDD (Time
Division Duplexing)? Thus it is a half duplex solution. In reality
it feels like a full duplex solution due to the timing.
Anthony
It is TDM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multiplexing
TDM T1's
hraunfoss.*fcc*.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-255351A1.pdf
In today’s 2nd Report and Order, the Commission amended its rules for
general Part 15
unlicensed operations that use wide bandwidths but are not classified as
UWB devices under its
rules. It increased the peak power limits and
Tom DeReggi wrote:
I've been plaqued by this problem, as my company name is...
RapidDSL. It gets me the leads, but it also starts every sales call
out with why I'm charging more than $50 a month for my service, that I
generally get $150-$500 a month for.
I'm seeing this company name as a
BellSouth, the second-largest owner of 2.5GHz spectrum in the U.S.,
controls spectrum in most of the 50 largest markets, according to
published reports. It also has substantial 2.3GHz spectrum (acquired in
auctions in 1997). SBC Communications also gained a large amount of
2.3GHz spectrum when
Be tough to get a 4 year contract. Plus how are you going to enforce
these contracts?
Who owns the CPE after install?
Who takes care of maintenance?
How about a Priority install charge to help off-set the CPE?
Regards,
Peter
RAD-INFO, Inc.
4isps.com
marketingideaguy.com
Joshua M. Andrews
John Scrivner wrote:
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. subscribers to
broadband high-speed Internet service jumped 32.3 percent to 42.9
million lines in the year ended June 2005, the Federal Communications
Commission reported on Monday.
These figures were collected
Being a wireless Internet service provider is becoming a popular
business. A handful of local companies, large and small, are bringing
different approaches to the marketplace, hoping to distinguish
themselves and stake a position in the front of an industry headed
toward consolidation -- not
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/wr_nm/telecoms_israel_nortel_dc_2
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http://www.fcc.gov/learnnet/
http://www.universalservice.org/sl/
http://www.e-ratecentral.com/us/stateInformation.asp?state=KY
http://www.rad-info.net/erate.htm
KyWiFi LLC wrote:
Where does a WISP look to find out if their state/city will
allow them to provide broadband service to schools
By Al Senia
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=314704
Municipal Wi-Fi networks are sprouting up around the United States, and
it’s been independent ISPs such as EarthLink and Google that typically
have struck deals with cities to provide wireless
http://localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=13558
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First off, it wasn't offered in Vegas - that is where the TelecomNext
show is this week, where BST announced that they will be lab testing
WiMAX gear. They use propriety wireless gear in select test towns from
Navini to offer broadband. And have now announced that the wireless
would be for
Tom,
Is it just me or are many of your posts written in outrage or disbelief?
You have the right to discuss how the model should work for WISPs, but I
think that you need to understand that the model needs to work 2 ways -
for the vendor and the WISP - whether VOIP or advertising.
The
Digital Realty Trust Facilities Offer Rooftop Space in Strategic Locations for
Wireless and Satellite Installations
the leading owner and manager of corporate data centers and
Internet gateways, today announced four recent lease agreements with tenants
that have taken rooftop
Easy to say but then you don't have to supply the Sun boxes that the
Zillacasters run on.
Also, selling local advertising takes time and man-power.
How do you get enough click-throughs and other metrix on 500 subs?
Even pay the advertising salesperson?
Regards,
Peter
Tom DeReggi wrote:
For
Every page has the option of taking ads from numerous sources like
mediaplex, doubleclick, etc.
Some pages the ad server is static (no choice).
In others, the ad server is dynamic (each time you view the page the ad
is different).
Frank Muto wrote:
Who determines the relevancy of the add?
Seems like we have a lot of questions, and it would be best if an
Adzilla Engineer answered them.
On March 15 at 10:30 Pacific time, RAD-INFO will be a hosting a
conference call for those interested in a QA with Adzilla. Just email
me your email adress that we can send a Live Meeting invite to
If there was indeed the focus of discussion - (promoting and improving
the wireless industry) - then there would be far less traffic, since a
majority of threads are about VoIP, revenue, FCC, the dreaded forms, and
where do I get?
None of that is about promoting the wireless industry (well,
How about to make it easy for all of you, I set up a con call with
Martin Stewart from Adzilla for a QA early next week?
There are minimums because the Zillacaster hardware isn't exactly cheap.
Plus local advertising has to be sold (and salespeople paid to close
contracts on that).
If
I worked with Martin at Adzilla on a Conference Call to introduce him to
some prospective ISPs.
(http://www.rad-info.net/partners/adzilla.htm)
Adzilla is a possible revenue stream for ISPs through ad replacement.
(Instead of them seeing the ILEC ad, they can see you ad). It is
definitely worth
Nuvio and CommPartners rely on Intrada for 911, just like Vonage.
As the Vonage IPO so clearly pointed out, 911 coverage is spotty at best.
Residential 911 is harder due to the nomadic possibilities.
CallVantage has taken measures to cover their butts and Lingo is working
on it.
But Intrado is
You haven't seen it yet, because Lingo is not profitable yet.
Primus owns Lingo and Primus is basically an International VOIP company.
Like so many VOIP Providers, they are still trying to figure out how to
make a profit.
Delta3 (which is the backend for VZ's VoiceWing) made $9.1M in revenue
Qwest has too much debt.
BellSouth LD is Qwest's largest customer.
So even less revenue to pay off that huge debt.
George Rogato wrote:
Qwest is next.
We all know consolidation is going to continue.
So I went out and bought some Qwest shares this am.
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Peter R. wrote:
You haven't seen it yet, because Lingo is not profitable yet.
Primus owns Lingo and Primus is basically an International VOIP company.
Like so many VOIP Providers, they are still trying to figure out how
to make a profit.
Delta3 (which is the backend for VZ's VoiceWing
I have to agree with Matt. Selling Host PBX service is probably the only
part left of VOIP that allow for a margin.
Peter
Matt Liotta wrote:
Primus/Lingo is calling every WISP in the country trying to sign them
up for a very CommPartners like deal. All of these VoIP providers are
using the
Issues such as LNP, E-911, 411, CALEA, yellow page listings, and taxes
will take a bite out of any profit.
Even termination, origination and DIDs cost money.
Let's say you get a 2 way CLEC PRI for $615 + DIDs at $10 per 20.
And let's say the CLEC will do your LNP and 911.
$615 divided by 23
That whole FCC E-911 thing was to save the PSTN. Cell phones have been
around 10 years without 911.
The other VOIP concern are the Virtual NXX cases at the FCC.
If SBC wins it's virtual NXX case against Valor (?? maybe another
company), the charges for DID will go through the roof.
Virtual
You might have just had a bad experience.
I beta tested the Primus Business VOIP product in 2004 and my only
complaint was that after talking for 75 minutes on one call, it would
die. And the Cisco ATA needed to be rebooted a lot.
Peter
KyWiFi LLC wrote:
Hi Scriv,
We tried Lingo but could
You're a CLEC, right?
Matt Liotta wrote:
The notion of avoiding toll costs by working with other WISPs sounds
great in theory. From our standpoint, it would cost us more to connect
to a single WISP than to pay our entire long distance bill. We pay
between $0.002 to $0.005 per minute on
News flash for you:
This is where we are today. RBOCs and MSOs control the last mile.
Neither has to share.
WISPs, BPL, and Muni projects will be the 3rd pipe. (I don't count
cellular because that is RBOC).
Pete Davis wrote:
Think that's not bad for the entrepreneurs? Try starting a
Jeromie Reeves wrote:
I said the same thing on the moto wireless list. We are being pushed
to be eaten by the larger wisps or closed down. I do not like it and
can only try and fight it but I have no idea how. Hopefully wispa
knows the direction as i do not thin(k) part-15 knows.
Jeromie
It is Grand Standing, but the Federal Gov't has said they we have a
Broadband policy - and we have all met that beast.
Affordable broadband is an economic necessity for communities.
(Lots of studies published in Broadband Properties mag to back that up).
When you are competing for every dollar,
It is Grand Standing, but the Federal Gov't has said they we have a
Broadband policy - and we have all met that beast.
Affordable broadband is an economic necessity for communities.
(Lots of studies published in Broadband Properties mag to back that up).
When you are competing for every dollar,
Sorry for the dupe posts and the wording.
Tired and trying to channel Tom Peters.
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Dallas' airBand Communications Inc. is earmarking some of its new $8
million round of funding for an expansion into Austin.
http://www.bizjournals.com/industries/high_tech/internet/2006/02/27/austin_story6.html
Thank you.
Regards,
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Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:
So far, LNP is not a big deal - it's pretty easy to get a toll-free line.
Toll-free is not LNP.
How does the biz client keep his phone number without keeping his
service with the LEC?
But the 911 requirement is a problem. The whole PSAP setup where the
local
we call them TELE-BARONS.
A. Huppenthal wrote:
I wonder what we should start calling the new telcos. There are 3
international companies that control nearly all of telcom today.
Verizon/MCI, SBC that bought Cingular/ATT, and Sprint/Nextel. They
aren't Bell Operating Companies. They are
Jory Privett wrote:
I was just wondering how a small WISP goes about enforcing a contract? If
someone cancels early what actions do I have available to enforce their
contract? Any Ideas or suggestions?
Jory Privett
WCCS
Collections usually works, but negotiating with the end user should
The margin in consumer VOIP is disappearing. The costs of the
infrastructure including DIDs and 911 implementation have slammed the
industry. Read Vonage's IPO to better understand the 911 liability and
cost.
In a couple of cases I have consulted on, the local CO was not
accessible by any
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Certainly, none of you should be surprised by this.
He has to make up for a $1T short-fall at the same time Congress is
trying to repeal the 3% Excise tax levied in the 1800s.
All other forms of transport are taxed including cellular.
Wait. DIDs for VOIP will be taxed before 3Q06. Too much
Let me just add some ideas:
1) Follow what the DBS industry does: they get their customers involved
in making noise to Congress. Mailers, email notices, website buttons,
and online forms.
I understand that ISPs do not like to involve their customers for fear
that the customers will think
Why not set up a website on wispa.org that would collect the data -
anonymously?
Collect all the data they want through the organization and send them
the database or the raw data.
This would give those that did not want to follow the guidelines an
alternative that the FCC may accept.
The thinking is that everyone wants to do huge numbers.
Well, reality is a whole other thing.
Even if you could price it at $14.77, you still couldn't do the volume
to make it.
(The lack of advertising for one).
Quick story: guy in Ky was selling DSl for $39.95, same as BST. He had
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CP has stopped selling Residential. Period. (That is what I was told).
Regards,
Peter
Charles Wu wrote:
Not to kick a dead horse here, but I heard the other day (from a WISP friend
of mine) that Commpartners has stop installing WISP residential connections
(due to E911 compliance issues) for
Thursday, March 2 10:00 AM
Wireless Issues/Spectrum Reform - LIVE WEBCAST
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May be a re-write coming. Commerce Committee has lots of telecom
hearings scheduled this quarter.
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Tom,
This huge thread about CP is amazing.
If you don't want to use them, or don't like their business plan. Fine.
It is the same plan that Level(3) has, so I don't understand the big deal.
You seem really peeved about the initial fee. How is that any different
than an install fee?
There are
You do understand that as a voice provider, since the FCC deemed 911 a
requirement, if your service is not 911 compliant and someone dies, you
can be held crimiinally liable as well as civilly liable?
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You would be best to build it yourself or buy it from another WISP like
Matt. (Or Lightyear).
You are not going to find your described Partner.
Vendors are usually not partners.
I have dealt with many, many companies in the telecom space - and hardly
any understand the word.
VOIP
Tom,
CP is not a middle man. CP is the VOIP CLEC providing the service.
Someone like Reignmaker or another ISP would be the middle man.
Actually, CP is using the L3 model.
But to say that a Reseller does not present costs to the vendor is
incorrect.
Training for one. With CP you get to send up
We deal with a couple of VOIP Providers that know Wireless is the way to go.
The ILEC needs to be cut out of ever newly development network for
sustainability.
On a separate note, I rep CommPartners (CP), Primus and many others. I
even have a CP Reseller WISPs can work with.
CP's new plan is
Bob Moldashel wrote:
Unfortunately...this is an uphill battle. You need to sell customers
on services. DO NOT get into a pricing war with them. You WILL
loose
Yes..you will wind up with fewer customers.
-B-
It is not the number of subs, it is the number of PROFITABLE subs that
That's the kind of Guerrilla Advertising YOU should be doing.
Pizza boxes, etc.
You might have to go with the old stand-by:
Do you really want Internet from Your Phone Company?
These people can't even get your bill straight.
On Triple-Play: I think that this is a ME-TOO strategy.
If you are
If you are going to be Resi, then get a DISH or DTV distributorship and
sell them Your VoIP and your Internet and the DBS service. Won't be one
bill, but it can be one call.
Tom DeReggi wrote:
Verizon has been advertising FIOS hard in our markets to, but its been
over 6 month for some, since
One bill. Yeah, some people like it.
But if the combined services are less money, you can make a case for 2
bills.
How can you make it easier for them to pay the bill???
Have you seen how hard VZ makes e-bill
You need to market to your own customers. Stay in front of them. Let
them know
To quote a DBS guy: The Broadcast TV market is static, at this point,
everyone is competing for everyone else's dollars.
And at the same time, the networks are releasing shows for download. How
much longer before most of the TV shows are downloadable? What happens
to broadcast TV then???
December 16, 2005 – Vivato, Inc. announced today that it has made the
decision to cease to operate as a going concern, and to wind down its
operations. This difficult decision was deemed by Vivato to be in the
best interest of creditors, shareholders and customers, based upon the
Company’s
Mac,
Great sentiments!
Just a thought as we enter this season:
Write down what you want to accomplish in 2006.
Be specific.
Set dates.
Share this list with a person or two.
Look at twice each day.
You will be amazed at what you can achieve.
Happy Holidays!
Peter
RAD-INFO, Inc.
your telecom
http://www.telecomweb.com/news/1134594567.htm
Post Katrina: Mississippi Gets Wireless Broadband
BellSouth has begun deploying high-speed wireless broadband speeds as fast
as 1.5 Gb/s in Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., modifying the company's original
wireless broadband rollout plans in order to get
Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
Would he give WISPA a good rate? Anyone interested could get quotes
and maybe he could cut us a break? I want this trade association to
get some members services so people have a reason to join. With added
services comes members and money. With members and money
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